A crush of well wishers, rabbis and politicians coursed through the home of Lawrence Mayor Martin Oliner on Monday, many posing in front of a phalanx of photographers with the draw of their attentions, Rabbi David Baruch Lau, Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel. He later left to speak at the White Shul, Kneseth Israel, in Far Rockaway, after mincha. more

A swallowable camera, an exoskeleton to enable paraplegics to walk and a device that can see through walls were showcased at an Israel technology fair on Long Island. Sodastream, whose Superbowl ad with Scarlett Johansson made it a focus of the BDS movement, was there too. more

HAFTR students gathered to commemorate Yom Hashoah. more

First graders in Morah Katz’s class at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead, took their siddurim on a walk to a blossoming blueberry bush so that they could perform the mitzvah of “Blessing the Trees,” which is done during the month of Nisan, when fruit trees begin to bloom. more

Four Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway HS students were awarded medals for outstanding research at the final round of the Long Island Math Fair on May 2, 2014 at Hofstra University. more

It started as a schmooze. Mr. Hillel Goldman, Rambam’s assistant principal, was discussing the many programs and activities at Rambam with his father. After mentioning the Mock Trial team, that finished in the final four last year in the Nassau County Tournament, his father asked, “Why not have a model Beis Din? That would teach the boys how to analyze a contemporary, real life issue from a halachic perspective.” more

In addition to the budget vote on Tuesday, May 20, residents in Lawrence School District can cast ballots in the race between incumbent Board of Education Trustee Asher Mansdorf and challenger Asher Matathias. Sitting Trustee Murray Forman is running unopposed. All terms are three years. more

The Israel-Palestinian talks are dead, and the administration of President Barack Obama is doing its best to let the world know it blames Israel. Not by blatantly coming out and saying it, because that would cause Israel to fight back against the slander, but by sneaking around and creating a whisper campaign. more

It is worthy to note that one of the most famous quotations from the Torah that has been adopted as part of American history was actually originally used, in a sense, in a proper context. more

A chronicler of American Jewish history, a talmid muvhak of Rav Joseph B. Soleveitchik and a teacher of thousands, Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff, will speak this Sunday at the Young Israel of West Hempstead. more